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UNITED STATEsPATENT OFFICE. f

JOHN A. WESTLAKE, OF,COOPERSTOWN, NE-YV YORK.

IMPROVEMENTlN SWINGING BARRELS, CASKS, &c., BENEATH COUNTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,949, dated November 12, 1878 application filed October 30, 1878.

To all whom it may concern? Beit known that I, JOHN ALFRED WEST- LAKE, of Cooperstown, in the county of Otsego and State of New York, have made a certain new and useful invention forSwingin g Barrels, Casks, &c., beneath Store-Counters, of which the following is a specication The object of my invention is to provide a device to be arranged beneath the counter of stores that will serve to hold barrels, easks, or other packages in such manner that they may be readily drawn out from under the counter when desired to have access to their contents, or for other purposes; and the invention consists in arranging a vertical pivotpost beneathl the counter, and providing it with bracket and gripping-plate .that will receive and hold the barrel by its chines or edges a suitable distance above the ground to permit of its being freely swung upon the pivot-post either beneath or out from under the counter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a counter with my device holding a barrel attached; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same in the line w a' of Fig. 1, showing the barrel beneath thel counter in full lines and withdrawn from under the same in dotted lines; and Fig. 3, a plan view of the bracket upon which the barrel sets.

A vertical pivot-post, A, sets into a step, B, secured to the floor beneath the counter C,

that the post may freely turn or revolve entirely upon its axis. A metal rest-plate or bracket, E, issecured to the lower end of the post a slight distanceV above the iioor, to receive and support the barrel or'cask G at its lower edge. A griping-hook, F, iittin g loosely upon the upper end of i the post, holds the upper end of the cask by its chines, so that the cask or barrel is supported entirely by` the post, and may turn freely with it. The griping-hook F may be held in place by a setscrew, f.

By the means above described the barrel may be readily handled and easily accessible. As it is clear above the iloor, it will be out of the way of water when scrubbing, and can be readilyv thrown out-of the way in sweeping beneath the counter.

I claim as myinvention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A revolving pivot-post arranged beneath a counter, resting in bearings at the upper end beneath the counter, and at the lower end, above the floor, provided with a bracket to receive the chine of the barrel or box at the bottom, and an adjustable grapple at the top to hold the barrel or'box against the pivotpost and upon the bracket.

JOHN ALFRED WESTLAKE, M. D.

Witnesses:

A. A. LIPsGoMB, C. F. Rown.

and is held at its upper end by a plate, D, so 

